I Connected 3 MCP Servers to Claude & Built a No-Code Research Agent That Actually Cites Sources
The Problem: AI Research Tools Are Fundamentally Broken
AI research tools are borderline useless for academia.
Traditional AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude generate authoritative-sounding responses with completely fabricated citations. Have a look for yourself:
A 2023 peer-reviewed study in Cureus found that when ChatGPT generated medical research content, 47% of citations were entirely fabricated and only 7% were both real and accurate.
A separate 2023 study in Clinical Medicine examined ChatGPT responses to medical questions and discovered 69% of references were completely fabricated, despite appearing plausible and authoritative.
As a research assistant, that’s catastrophic. You need every claim backed by a real source, not 7*%* of it!
A friend of mine in bioinform…
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